His Kind Mother

Ayatollah Bahjat knew that his mother got sick and died when he was sixteen months old.
His sister told him so.
She told him about their mother’s white flowered Chador and about whatever she remembered of her.
One night, he dreamed of his mother, his mother covered her face with her Chador...
She hid her face with the same white flowered Chador that his sister had described.
He tried hard but couldn’t see her!
He woke up,
He did not know why her mother did not let him see her face.
He missed his mother very much!
Muhammad Taqi thought,
Maybe if I saw her face, I would miss her more. Perhaps the mother did not wanted to – through love – prevent her son, even for a few moments, from religious studies and soul-purification.
It is human nature,
Nostalgia put him under so much pressure...

Source: a memory shared by Hujjatul-Islam Ali Bahjat